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TIL President Lincoln signed a mandatory draft law that allowed the rich to buy their way out.

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KWyw TIL In 1977 a Chinese woman with no medical degree anonymously found a malaria cure. 38 years later, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine.
b97Y9 TIL that Japanese researchers have discovered that administering an electrical shock that simulates a lightning strike can increase mushroom yields -- leading to more and bigger mushrooms.
70Mp TIL there is a satellite orbiting Earth that is predicted to re-enter the atmosphere in 8.4 million years, carrying a message addressed to the beings/humans and civilizations of the future.
VMdw8 TIL Charlie Chaplin got a 16-year-old pregnant, married her to avoid jail time, then divorced her when she turned 18. He then set his eyes on a 12-year-old when she was cast in his movie. Got her pregnant at 16, pressured her to abort the child. When she refused he had her removed from a film.
5dyk TIL in 1951 in a Disney comic titled ‘Mickey Mouse and the Medicine Man’ Mickey and Goofy get high and move to Africa to become drug dealers